Linkert floats???

[felthamw]

Thank you, Tommo
As is what I have found to be New Zealand custom - I have yet in my worldly travels to find a place as friendly as this country. Nice to see and experience in this day and age. I keep asking how hard it would be to move to New Zealand (not that hard to do).... the challenges are actually more directed towards my newly "empty nester" wife. Personally, I would move here in a minute. (I love it here in NZ.) Thank you and your countrymen for showing this Yank what life should be like.
I am due to return to Tokoroa/Rotorua area next month. If time allows work-wise, I will arrange a mutually agreeable meeting. I will be much closer than I am here now in Marsden Point/Whangerai.
Long live old motorcycles......!!!
Wayne #4329

[T. Cotten]

RF!

Besides robbing performance and fuel mileage,
brass floats are not "impervious"!

They can corrode.

I had one make a hole in itself just sitting on the shelf for years; the flux ate its way out from inside!

....Cotten

[duffeycycles]

To Red Fred;I have seen many brass floats sink -they corrode with moisture here in the rust belt -lasting about 4 years max-they are green when they die

[Red Fred]

Good Heavens! Dead, green floats! I thought I was in the rust belt, just off of the Pacific here, on the left Coast? Bare metal forms surface rust overnight in my garage here.
I am very gratefull for some of my Cotton floats in various forms that aren't available elsewhere; like the Zenith on my Up-side down 4our, which has lasted fine so far on No Cal, & So Cal fuels (we'll see how she likes Yosemite fuel this weekend). I have some Rubber Duckies in stock that I have yet to employ. I just got a ladies Pan Head in with a bad spongy float. This bike was originally from Florida. I've had 100 % success with brass, and probably 70% with others personally. I admire the warrantees & all, but I'd rather just deal with stuff once. Perhaps the fuel changes too often around here (there's many a refinery just across the Bay from us here in SF). I believe most of my float failures have been local now that I think of it.
Trying not to corrode, or swell, RF.

[45OZ]

Just my 2 cents here. I have the same Brass float in my linkert on my 45 chief , I bought the float from Rocky's about 14 years ago, when I rebuilt the Carb. This bike is used at least 3 Times a week all year long, for about the last 10 years, I don't pamper it I beat the hell out of it & I have had no issues with the brass Float & will only use them, I have been told that they are not good ect.... But I guess the key is to keep it in use. I have had other items need fixing & such but not the brass float. I see no need to use any other material, Hell it worked in 1945 it will work now.
Just my 2 cents
Oz

[Slojo]

Everything is subject to fail eventually. Me, the few float types I have used including brass has failed until now. So far I have been enjoying my vintage riding with a float from Lonnie at Competition Dist. Lonnie's (black) float took me across the country in the 2010 MC Cannonball and now is with 5300 trouble free miles.
Joe
Cannonball #48

[T. Cotten]

RF!

That was a MARVEL float I cut for your '36 upside-down tragedy. Not a '37 Zenith.

45OZ!
Linkert NEVER produced a Model M float from brass. Vertical Twin Indians and Autos perhaps, but you are sadly mistaken.

This forum is becoming a mis-information highway.

....Cotten

[knuckleheadtim]

If you adjust the brass floats down to compensate for the weight, they don't drop far enough to open the needle sufficiently. You will run out of fuel going down the highway, and Harleys don't like to be run lean. If you don't drop the float, the fuel level will be too high in the main well, and the air bleeds in the main nozzle won't kick in correctly. A 45" motor might get enough fuel with the float adjusted down, but a big twin won't. A Cotten float is the only way to go.

[kval]

with the advances in materials today, why would anyone use anything but one of Cotton's floats. they work great and he stands behind every one he sells. when I thought I had a bad float, he shipped one out right away, I then discovered it was NOT the float but a bad neddle and seat, that I bought from another vendor.

[45OZ]

RF!

That was a MARVEL float I cut for your '36 upside-down tragedy. Not a '37 Zenith.

45OZ!
Linkert NEVER produced a Model M float from brass. Vertical Twin Indians and Autos perhaps, but you are sadly mistaken.

This forum is becoming a mis-information highway.

....Cotten

thanks for the info. How about some info on the complete history of floats used in linkert carbs? You know Compounds used, Lenth of use before breakdown of compounds, who manufactured them & for how long,
This could be a step on curbing the "mis-information" & you could be leading it !!!
Still happy with the Brass float I have used for the last 14 years, guess I just got lucky on when I bought it, How I set it up & adjusted the float, well off to ride my BRASS FLOAT LINKERT Indian !!!